[San Diego: Phenix Publishers, 1968]. Hippie exploitation mag documenting what happens when a "HIGH SCHOOL GIRL Drops Out to LIVE WITH NAKED HIPPIES." Here we "SEE Naked teen-age kids bathe their young bodies and minds in bold sunshine and pine-needled shadow." Article by William Mullins explaining the activities at this... More
n.p.: Privately published, 1982. Beneath the portrait is printed: "Black Sparrow Press Poetry Project Joyce Carol Oates." One of only 20 numbered copies signed by the artist, this copy is also inscribed to Black Sparrow Press publisher John Martin and his wife Barbara. Fine ( 25.5" x 17.75"). More
n.p.: Privately published, 1982. Beneath the portrait is printed: "Black Sparrow Press Poetry Project Joyce Carol Oates." One of only 20 numbered copies signed by the artist. In the corner the artist has written "Thanks Joyce Carol Oates" though not a presentation to her. Fine ( 25.5" x 17.75"). More
London: Indica Gallery, 1966. Narrow 8vo. Pamphlet. First edition. Exhibition catalog for this landmark show where gallery co-owner John Dunbar first introduced Yoko to John Lennon. Interestingly designed, featuring 8 pages each with three perforated photos with adhesive backing that were intended to be torn out and glued into their... More
n.p.:n.p., [1967]. Berkeley: Print Mint, 1967. Envelope with op-art motif containing 5 clear plastic sheets printed in color with a geometric op-art pattern. Shuffle "the deck" to create different combinations of psychedelic, optical designs. Sixties headshop item intended for stoners. Slight wave to the plastic sheets, else fine in very... More
LA: Gary Panter, 1980. Pamphlet in color illustrated staped wrappers. First edition. Signed by Panter in the year of publication. Panter's second comic, photocopied and hand-assembled by him. Panter was an early participant in the LA Punk scene of the '70s during which time his work appeared in Slash magazine... More
[NY]: New Directions, [1954]. Hardbound in dust jacket. First edition. Review copy with publisher's slip. Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Scarce with the review slip. More
[SF]: The Print Workshop, [1952]. Square 16mo. Softbound, issued in dust jacket. First edition. The "Vellum Edition," one of 120 numbered copies signed by Patchen. A lovely production hand-printed on hand-made Curfew paper. This copy belonged to Black Sparrow publisher John Martin and it has his tiny label in the... More
n.p.: Privately published, 1955. Broadside. First edition. Silk-screened in color by Frank Bacher from Patchen's original illustrated manuscripts. Printed by hand on handmade Japanese paper in an edition of 200 copies, for this broadside Patchen hand-colored the paper. Originally issued as part of the folio of broadsides Glory Never Guesses... More
Norfolk: New Directions, 1957. Square 8vo. Hardbound in hand-painted boards with a piece of painted silver foil affixed to the front cover. First edition. One of 75 signed numbered copies with an original painting by Patchen on both the front and back covers (covers brightly colored in primarily yellow, orange... More
Hermosa Beach, CA: Walt Phillips Productions, 1962. Features photos of surfers surfing. Printed in red and blue against a white background. Classic early poster from the heyday of surf culture. Very fine (approx. 9" x 12"). More
[SF]: City Lights, [1968]. 18mo. Softbound. First edition of the author's first book. Published as Pocket Poets No. 22. Signed by the author in the year of publication. Few spots of faint foxing to front cover, very near fine. More
NY: Fuck You Press, 1967. 4to. Mimeographed sheets, stapled at the edge. First edition thus. Cover by Joe Brainard. Limited to 300 numbered copies. Fine. Scarce item from the Fuck You Press. More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. An LA street scene featuring an image of the Star Cafe sign with a movie billboard in the background. Printed in black and gray on thick white stock. One of 26 numbered copies signed by Price dated 1982, this being copy No. 1. In... More
Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1982. An LA street scene featuring an image of the Tiki Motel with a Tiki face above the hotel sign. Printed in black, blue, and gray on thick white stock. This copy designated "publisher's copy" and signed by Price dated 1982. In the corner are... More
n.p.: Privately issued by the artist, ca. 1978. Single octavo sheet printing: "SOIL MECHANICS / CALL MARCELLUS / 212 2840664." On the verso Prince has placed his rubber stamp "post / richard prince / card." Prince recalls pasting these to lamp posts around NYC at the time. A rare, early... More
Ontario: Paget Press, 1980. Large folio. Broadside poem housed in a folder printed with gilt lettering. Limited to 44 numbered copies signed by the author, this copy is dated and there is also one correction to the text in Purdy's hand. Illustrated with a photograph of the plumed serpent tile... More
[London: Aloes Books, 1980]. Pamphlet. First separate printing of this story that originally appeared in The Saturday Evening Post and later appeared as part of The Slow Learner collection. This copy is inscribed by Pynchon: "For Irving / Thomas Pynchon." Pynchon is notoriously reclusive avoiding photo opportunities and interviews and... More
NY/London: Award Books/Tandem Books, [1968]. Magazine-format publication devoted to "stripping the petals off the Flower Children" revealing "them to be floundering in a cesspool of sex, half-crazed with weird drugs, parasitic, selfish, diseased..." Sensational, scathing attack on the hippie subculture with articles and first-person accounts of "orgiastic parties" and "sexual..... More
LA: Dwan Gallery, 1963. Charmingly illustrated with antique etchings of characters in 19th Century garb holding placards that list the particpants that included Arman, Bontecou, Dine, Kienholz, Klein, Lichtenstein, Oldenberg, Parker, Rauschenberg, Raysse, Reinhardt, Rivers, Rosenquist, and Tinguely. This is artist Ben Talbert's copy with his American flag stamp on... More
LA: Dwan Gallery, 1965. Features a color reproduction of a work by Rauschenberg incorporating his self-portrait. Dwan was a leading avant-garde space during the sixties, this was his second exhibition there. Some yellowing to three corners (only one overtly noticeable), some creasing to those corners and a bit along bottom... More
SF: City Lights, 1956. 16mo. Pamphlet. First edition. No. 2 in the beloved Pocket Poets Series. A fine, fresh, unusually crisp copy, basically as new. Very scarce in this condition. More
NY: Privately published by the author, 1947. Pamphlet. First edition. Cover illustration by Max Ernst. Imaginatively designed brochure for this landmark 1947 surrealist film directed by Hans Richter. One of the seven dream sequences in the film is devoted to Marcel Duchamp, others focus on Man Ray, Max Ernst, Hans... More
Washington: Black Sun Press, 1946. Folio. Broadside. First edition. A broadside relating to the landmark 1947 surrealist film directed by Hans Richter. Illustrated with stills from the film, as well as a photo of Richter and Duchamp looking at Duchamp's Roto-relief machine. Originally issued in Black Sun Press' Portfolio 111... More
n.p.: Privately published, 1961. Features a photo of a surfer riding a wave printed in blue against a white background. Early ephemera from the heyday of surfing. As new (approx. 9.5" x 6"). Surfing paper ephemera of this vintage is scarce. More